Rural Payments Service Continuity Project
£27,000,000 — published in the notice, and more than 50× anything this buyer has previously awarded (their largest of 92 published awards is £6,600,000). Check it against the ITT pack before relying on it.
The procurement contact named on the official notice.
Defra Group Commercial has published 55 notices across all categories, and 60% of its awards go to a supplier it has used before.
Which is the argument for getting on the list rather than winning this one. The incumbent is rarely the last winner — it is the roster. See the retention odds by category →
Defra is responsible for responsible for improving and protecting the environment.
We aim to grow a green economy and sustain thriving rural communities.
We also support our world-leading food, farming and fishing industries.
For further information please visit https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-environment-food-rural-affairs The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) is an executive agency, sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs.
We pay out over £2 billion each year to support a thriving farming and food sector, supporting agricultural and rural communities to create a better place to live.
The Rural Payments service (RPS) is Defra’s online registration system for farmers, animal keepers and rural traders and businesses.
At its core is the payments policy and rules engine application ABACO Agri (previously known as SITI Agri).
This has been developed over a number of years and delivers > 80% of the large, complex, reoccurring land-based grants/schemes offered by Defra such as Basic Payment Scheme (BPS), Countryside Stewardship (CS), Combined Offer (CO), Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) among others for more than 90,000 farmers.
As part of Defra’s digital strategy this application will be replaced with a new solution/service as part of the Farming Countryside Programme (FCP) that is also delivering major policy changes over the next few years.
To provide sufficient time to implement, transition and migrate to a new solution/service, the Authority requires a contract for the support, maintenance and development of schemes/grants on Defra’s existing deployment of ABACO Agri for up to 3 years.
What the notice asks for
Defra is responsible for responsible for improving
Defra is responsible for responsible for improving and protecting the environment.
We also support our world-leading food, farming
We also support our world-leading food, farming and fishing industries.
We pay out over £2 billion each
We pay out over £2 billion each year to support a thriving farming and food sector, supporting agricultural and rural communities to create a better place to live.
To provide sufficient time to implement, transition
To provide sufficient time to implement, transition and migrate to a new solution/service, the Authority requires a contract for the support, maintenance and development of schemes/grants on Defra’s existing deployment of ABACO Agri for up to 3 years.
Sentences from the notice that state an obligation, surfaced automatically and shown in the order they appear. Not an exhaustive list — always confirm against the tender documents.
Make the case to bid
Reveal who to approach at Defra Group Commercial, and generate a go-to-market strategy from their news, accounts and people.
Free to start. Named contacts come from published notices; the strategy is generated from the buyer’s news, accounts and people.
The full intelligence dossier
Our agent reads Defra Group Commercial’s accounts, hunts live signals, finds the people who decide — and hands you a bid strategy plus a go-to-market influence plan, including what your team should post this week. You approve every paid step.
Five included while we’re in beta, and the agent asks before it spends on any paid step.
- OCID
- ocds-h6vhtk-0485ee
- Stage
- planning · Planning
- Source
- Find a Tender
- Buyer ref
- 023772-2024
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source data © Crown copyright.
Who wins this kind of work
The suppliers and buyers around this opportunity — drawn from official award data. Drag to orbit; click a node to explore.
Top suppliers & buyers in IT Services
Defra Group Commercial’s tender network
Similar open tenders
DN Colleges Group - ITT for the Provision of Website Development Services
DN Colleges Group
Corporate IT Support Service to NHS Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board and Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board
NHS GLOUCESTERSHIRE INTEGRATED CARE BOARD